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DUN-COLORED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dun-colored mean?
• DUN-COLORED (adjective)
The adjective DUN-COLORED has 1 sense:
1. having a dun color
Familiarity information: DUN-COLORED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a dun color
Synonyms:
dun-colored; dun-coloured
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Once, through a break in the trees, we saw a clear shoulder of green hill some distance away, and across this a large dun-colored animal was traveling at a considerable pace.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That evening a great dun-colored cloud banked up in the west, and an anxious man was Goodwin Hawtayne, for a third part of his crew had been slain, and half the remainder were aboard the galleys, so that, with an injured ship, he was little fit to meet such a storm as sweeps over those waters.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From Vinney Ridge to Rhinefield Walk the woods grow thick and dense up to the very edges of the track, but beyond the country opens up into broad dun-colored moors, flecked with clumps of trees, and topping each other in long, low curves up to the dark lines of forest in the furthest distance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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